{The Italy-based International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) founded in 1964 by the late Nobel Laureate Abdus Salam, has announced the opening of its branch campus in Rwanda, to operate as the East African regional base by January 2015.}
The decision was announced during the visit to Italy of President Paul Kagame as the keynote speaker at the celebrations of ITCP’s success in international scientific cooperation and the promotion of scientific excellence in the developing world.
It is expected that the centre’s main mission will especially focus on offering education, training and research at postgraduate level in physics and mathematics.
According to official statistics, the national budget allocation to research and development program by Government is currently estimated to be 0.4 percent of the whole national Gross Domestic Product (GDP).
Since 2007, the government of Rwanda has embarked on promoting public-private partnerships in research and development as one of the tools that will promote technology transfer to benefit the poor communities in a country where 57 per cent of the population live below the poverty line, living on one dollar per day.
The purpose of this commitment to ensure that higher and technical education and research institutions in the country can play a decisive role in training candidates who ultimately end up being globally active in the country’s knowledge based economy
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